JUST THREE OR FOUR YEARS ago, William P. Ewing’s Atlanta law practice was almost wholly devoted to representing gas-fired power plants and other traditional, high-emissions energy generators. Now, he spends about a third of his time on renewable energy projects that produce cleaner power from wood chips, sugarcane, geothermal brine and garbage.

Ewing’s evolving practice is emblematic of what’s happening around the country, where law firms are seeing their workload grow and shift under the influence of the scientific and political force that is climate change.

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